[Oculosdegrau]

Hello, new to CFD here

I modelling a plain bearing, whose journal has a bore. I would like to monitor the height of the gap above the bore and also the height of the lowest distance between journal and shell.

I have a coordinate system at the center of the journal and another at the center of the shell. When the journal and shell are concentric, these would be coincident. I figured I could place a point at the center of the bore outlet's face, and calculate it's distance to the shell center. Then, I could subtract the shell radius from this distance to find the gap height. The problem is, I dont know how to extract the position of a point.

For the second measument, I could simply subtract the position of the bores from one another. Could you guys show me how to extract this monitor, or if there is a better way to do it? Much appreciated!

[Sebastian3232]

Good day

You must be sure the point will move and not to get static, for this when create the point you must link it to the part/parts will move (in the parts ... selector), second you must activate "follow motion" option.
to create a monitor of the point's position, you must create an XY plot and select "Scalar" at the data type option and select for X and Y which scalar do you need, for point's position you look for position ion X,Y or Z direction axis. To select the body you need to track, in the "parts" option select the derived part "point" you created.


Hope this work for you